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Comment by Mortaea

Okay, there's a trick that makes this fight VERY easy. Before killing Alexei, face the room that he's located in. Now, turn to the right and clear that room completely. Okay, now everyone stand on one fo the petitions in the room except for the puller. The pull will shoot/cast at Lord Alexei. The puller then needs to run, wait until the two skeleton guards and Lord Alexei are close as possible, then jump onto the petition in the water with everyone else.

Just wait and the two skeleton guards will run back but Lord Alexei will remain there a bit longer. Jump down once the guards dash off and beat Alexei's head in!

Comment by TheOnyx

Alexi can be difficult at first with a 5-man group, but is pretty easy once you get the hang of the battle.

Alexi has an area-of-affect aura that constantly damages anyone close to him. For that reason, it is important that Alexi be tanked in an area away from the rest of the party. Alexi also casts a curse that reduces healing affects on the target, so it is just as important that you have a class available (such as a mage) that can decurse the main tank immediately when he/she is debuffed.

The main tank should pull by shooting Alexi while at the top of the left staircase. The rest of the group can sit in the corner just to the right of the enterence to the room and avoid the ugly AoE aura. If you have any shamans, have them drop totems in the middle of the room. Specifically, a healing totem, stoneskin totem, and grounding totem will make life easier by keeping the main tank alive longer and absorbing the curse occasionally.

For the main fight, just have the main assist pull each of the guards off of the main tank one at a time. Defeat the guards, then DPS Barov.

Using this strategy, I was part of a group of 4 who were able to take him down. We had a warrior, a mage, a resto shaman and an enhancement shaman. After the warrior pulled, the enhancement shaman pulled one of the guards off of him, and the mage and shaman DPSed him down. The mage occasionally decursed the warrior while the resto shaman healed the main tank (and the enhacement shaman when necessary). After each guard, the enhancement shaman would bandage to regain health so the healer could conserve mana.

Comment by hpavc

Paladin fear with a priest shackle makes this fight silly easy.

Comment by shockwaver

Soloed him as a rogue just for fun. Before you enter the aoe aura field pop cloak of shadows and you can approach him and punch in an opener.

Comment by Propane

I'm a little late to the party, but a way of cheapening this fight is to get shadow resists up - via Priest buff or Pally aura (they don't stack) - which will lower the shadow damage aura, if not full resist it.

Another neat trick is to get a Mage to Dampen Magic everybody, lowering the damage even further. You may be thinking 'But that will lower healing taken too much!' Well, yes and no. On the one hand it will lower healing taken, but with the Shadow resist and Dampen, the group needs significantly less healing, making the healer's life much easier.

This works wonders on both Lord Alexi Barov and Baron Rivendare.

Comment by rolled64

Easily kiteable because he stops to cast veil of shadow, and then tries to catch up, and stops, etc. His guards are weak and vulnerable to slows.

Comment by Keris

Soloed as a rogue, tried the water trick but as soon as he got into the water, everyone was ported back into his room. Just sprinted in, evasion, GS, SS to 5 CPS...and so on. Easy as long as you have good health pots and a few healthstones.

Comment by fenomas

Easy strat for a feral druid:

Pull with Faerie Fire from range, and run back into the main room, up the stairs, and around to one side. If they get within range, Demo Shout as you go. Once you're up there, fight at leisure - any time you feel pressured you can jump off and have plenty of time to Regrowth -> Lifebloom -> Rejuvenate -> Bear. Just make sure to cleanse the healing debuff as you jump, if it's on you.

From there, I did the adds first, but doing the boss first would probably work well. I only had to heal once, wearing questing greens.

Comment by Mike250

As a Frost Mage, pull out your Water Elemental and Shatter Combo the two adds as fast as possible. Bounce Lord Alexei Barov between you and your WE, using Ice Block if necessary.

Pop Cold Snap if you really need to rinse and repeat.

Comment by dankone

Fun fact: The greek character "nu" (ν) in its lower case form resembles the English letter "v" while it is pronounced as an n. So, if you pronounced the "v" in Barov as an n, you would get Baron.

Comment by TheMaelstorm

Soloable as 65 unholy dk with starter gear. Diseases on an add, Pestilence, DS as neccessary and of course dnd. 4 or so diseased ghouls showed right after he fell though, wasnt expecting, got killed :(

Comment by CanadianSniper

Is a sword that looks like his obtainable?

Comment by Viserys

As far as i can see (haven't actually been Scholo since pre TBC) his sword appears to have the same graphics as Sul'Thraze the Lasher - which has the same model as Warmonger i just checked. So yes you can but the middle part of the blade will not be blue.

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Comment by Cayslia

Ranged dps and healer should stay as far away from him as possible to avoid his AoE. If he is tanked in the lower section of the room where he is found, the healer and the ranged dps might have line of sight issues that draw them into range of the AoE. Killed him tonight with regular tank and spank, with warlock, hunter, rogue, and the warrior tank. Tank had about 3500 hp, and I have about the same in mp. Lost the warlock from standing too close to the AoE, took all my time to keep the tank alive with a quick HoT the rogue. I would recommend as stated above, pulling him to the edge of one set of stairs while all the ranged dps stand at the far corner of the room, and use anything you can to cut down on the damage. Alexei was much harder than Gandling.

Comment by Scytherian

Just finished a Scholo solo run on my 43 Protection Paladin, and I will have to say, this fight gave me fits. Definitely the hardest fight in the dungeon and I finally managed it on my third attempt. I was wearing the full set of Tank BoA's. Pulled with an Avenger's shield, and focused on bringing the two Risen Guards down as fast as possible, as they are the main source of damage. I did have to blow Lay on Hands as soon as the last Risen Guard died. After that it's just managing your health to make sure you heal as soon as his curse that reduces healing wears off. You can stun/interrupt him, so that makes the fight easier if you do so when he tries to cast his curse. About a 2 minute fight for me when soloing him.

Comment by MABGamer6407

Its a shame that The wife is the only 1 Making a Come Back In the revamped Version. This guy is awesome.

Comment by Sablesword

As of patch 5.0.4, this NPC has been removed as a boss. However, he now makes a rather... different appearance within the revamped Scholomance.